Nungambakkam (Chennai) [India], Jan. 9 : Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan became the first Indian pair since 2011 to clinch the Chennai Open men's doubles title at the SDAT Stadium here last evening.

Bopanna and Nedunchezhiyan defeated fellow countrymen Purav Raja and Divij Sharan 6-3, 6-4 in the finals of the tournament to emulate Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, who achieved the feat as many as five times.

Paes won the title one more time in 2012 but that was with a Serbian player, Janko Tipsaveric.

Some sort of doubles history was created even before the first ball was hit, as it was for the time in the Chennai Open's 22-year existence that four Indians featured in the summit showdown.

Chennai: After weeks of negotiations with employees agitating against suspension of operations at the Foxconn's Sriperumbudur plant, the electronic parts manufacturer said a severance agreement has been reached and the facility is closed down.

In a response to PTI query today, Foxconn said, "A settlement for severance was concluded with employee representatives on February 12, 2015 and based on that agreement, the last day of employment for all employees of FIH India Private Ltd was February 10."

"The company's facility in the Nokia Special Economic Zone, Chennai, officially closed its operations on February 10, 2015," it said.

Chennai , Feb 12 : Luxury car manufacturer Rolls Royce on Thursday officially launched its latest model, the Ghost Series II. With this, the Tamil Nadu capital has become the first city in South India where the car has been launched.

"Basically it's an evolution to Ghost Series I and there is quite a few changes to the car-exterior wise interior wise and also technology wise," said Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd, Asia-Pacific, general manager Sven J Ritter, while launching the car.

He added that the super luxury car maker was yet to decide on entering the sports utility vehicle segment.

The Ghost Series II was launched in the rest of the country in November.

According to reports, India is one of the top five markets in Asia Pacific for the Ghost series. (ANI)

Chennai: With one-and-a-half months left for the Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the government will take "special steps" to boost public spending on infrastructure and initiate measures to rationalise subsidies.

"Even with the present constraint of fiscal deficit in revenue, it's a challenging and a difficult opportunity for us. But I think we have to take some special steps as far as public investments is concerned," he said.

The Minister underlined the need for stepping up public investments in infrastructure sector to boost economic growth.

The 25-year-old Bedene, ranked as low as 156, shocked his Spaniard opponent 3-6 6-3 7-6 (8) in a marathon and intense semifinal that lasted two hours and 42 minutes.

Beden has become first qualifier in the 20-year history of Chennai Open to reach the summit clash. It has been a dream run in the USD 450,000 tournament for the Slovakian as he had also upset second seed Feliciano Lopez and fifth seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in previous rounds.

The Hinduja Group company had sold 6,275 units during the same month of 2013.

Sales of medium and heavy commercial vehicles soared 85 percent in December 2014 to 7,210 units as against 3,890 units sold during the same month of previous year, the Chennai-based automaker said in a statement.

On sales of light commercial vehicles, the company witnessed 13 percent decline in December 2014, to 2,080 units from 2,385 units sold in December 2013.

Chennai - Indicating that there were no more production orders for employees to work for at its Sriperumbudur unit near here, Taiwan-based electronics parts maker Foxconn on Thursday said it has completed them and all its employees were placed on "paid-holiday-leave" status.

"FIH Mobile confirms that employees at our India operation, FIH India Private Limited in Chennai, have been placed on paid-holiday-leave status from December 22 as that facility has completed all of its production orders", the Taiwan based firm said in a statement.

Chennai - Tamil superstar Rajinikanth tonight hinted that he may plunge into politics about which there has been speculation for a long time.

"I have been moving in the direction shown by God. If he desires that I should come to politics, I will serve the people," the 63-year-old actor said at the launch of the audio and trailer of his tri-lingual action-thriller 'Lingaa'.

"Politics is dangerous and deep. I am not afraid of politics, but hesitant. In politics you need strong roots," he added.

There has been speculation for years about whether the megastar would join politics as various political parties have been wooing him.

Chennai - The 67-hour countdown for the launch of India's navigation satellite IRNSS 1C, the third of seven satellites in the series to put in place India's navigation system on par with US' Global Positioning System, on board PSLV C 26 began Monday at the spaceport of Sriharikota.

Following the clearance from the Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) yesterday, the countdown commenced at 6.32 AM today as planned and was proceeding smoothly, ISRO said.

Chennai: The countdown for the launch of India's navigation satellite IRNSS 1C, the third of seven satellites in the series to put in place India's navigation system on par with US' Global Positioning System, on board PSLV C 26 will commence at the spaceport of Sriharikota tomorrow.

The earlier planned launch on October 6 was postponed following a technical problem.

"The 67-hour countdown for the mission will commence at 0632 hrs IST on October 13," ISRO said.

Chennai: ISRO will launch the third of seven series of satellites to put in place India's own navigation system on par with US' Global Positioning System (GPS) from the spaceport of Sriharikota on October 10.

The launch has been scheduled at 1.56 AM on October 10, ISRO said today.

The IRNSS 1C satellite would be launched on the 28th flight of India's PSLV-C26 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, some 100 km from here.

As part of its aspirations to build a regional navigational system equivalent to Global Positioning System of the US, ISRO plans to send seven satellites to put in place the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS).

Chennai, Sept 28 - Business establishments and offices remain closed in Chennai on Sunday after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was sentenced to serve four years in jail and asked to pay a fine of Rs. 100 crores in connection with a disproportionate assets case by a Bangalore Special Court on Saturday.

The AIADMK party cadres protested in front of the party headquarter in Chennai raising slogans in favour of their party supremo.

Chennai: Public sector Indian Bank will revise its interest rates on the foreign currency non-resident (banking) term deposits from tomorrow.

"For FCNR (B) deposits, in USD, the revised interest rate has been revised to 2.34 percent (from 2.36) for deposits of one year and above but less than two years", the Chennai-based bank said in a statement.

For deposits of two years and above but less than three years, interest rates have been revised to 2.71 percent from the existing 2.76 percent.

Chennai: State-owned Indian Oil Corporation has proposed to invest about Rs 1,200 crore during the current financial year for expanding its Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) pipeline projects.

"Recently, the Corporation has renewed focus on LPG pipelines so as to leverage the economics and safety aspects of LPG transport via pipelines. With increased LPG imports and significant evacuation through tankers, LPG piplines are in the next growth avenue," IOC said in its annual report.

Chennai: As part of its plans to sell over 9,000 units during the current financial year, automaker Honda Cars India would consider exporting its latest mid-size multi purpose vehicle Mobilio to South Africa, a top company official said today.

The Japanese carmaker had shipped about 6,000 units in the last financial year, Honda Cars India Senior Vice-President (Sales and Marketing), Jnaneswar Sen said.

"We are considering exports of Mobilio to South Africa. Last year, we made exports of 6,000 units. This year we have a target of 9,000 units", Sen told reporters here after launching Mobilio in the region.

Chennai: Sixty-one Indian nationals hailing from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday arrived here from Iraq following their evacuation from the strife-torn Gulf country.

The returnees, who were employed with various companies in Iraq, landed here on an Air India flight via Mumbai and were received by senior state government officials at the Anna International terminal, airport officials said.

About 36 of them hail from Andhra Pradesh while the rest are from Tamil Nadu, officials said, adding that all of them have left on the onward journey to their homes.--PTI

Chennai: Commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland has lined up a number of new launches this fiscal which include the formal launch of 'Jan Bus' in Kolkata on July 30, a top official said.

"There are many products. A whole slew of launches. We have variants of Bus, lot more of Captain. Jan Bus is being launched on 30th (July) in Kolkata, first time, a national launch in collaboration with the government. We are very happy about that..." Ashok Leyland, Managing Director, Vinod K Dasari told reporters.

Chennai: Finland-based Nokia has paid about Rs 250 crore as compensation to employees of its Chennai manufacturing facility, who opted for the voluntary retirement scheme offered by it in May, Tamil Nadu Industries Minister P Thangamani informed the state Assembly today.

"Soon after the Chennai plant was converted into contract manufacturing facility, as it was excluded from the Nokia-Microsoft USD 7.2 billion deal, the operations of the Chennai plant will be based on the supply orders. Because of this reason, the company (Nokia) offered VRS," he said.